Motivational Quotes

Service

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Service

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

10.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

11.

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

12.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

14.

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

15.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

30.

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

31.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

34.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Chah, Achaan

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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

46.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

48.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales